Wi-Fi Info revealed!

[RYGR]

Today at a Conference dubbed "Nintendo DS Conference! 2005" Nintendo revealed all on there Wifi Plans, While the news is slowly filtering out we have currently the picture of the Wifi USB Dongle you will need to use to connect your DS if you do not have a Wireless Router. The Dongle is indeed Real and and is being Manufactured by a Company Called Buffalo.

Also Given we're Dates for when the Service will be up and running. They are as Follows:

Mario Kart DS
EU: 11 Nov
US: 14 Nov
JP: 8 Dec
AU: November

Animal Crossing
JP: 23 Nov
US: 5 Dec
EU: TBD
AU: December

Also Revealed A Diagram Showing how the new AOSS System with DS will Work, The AOSS Is a 1 Button Setup so you should get it setup Easy As. Nintendo also Talked about how if you only want to play against friends, then you will get a 12 digit "Friend Code" that you can give to your friends that you want to play Mario Kart etc with. (Diagram is in jap )


- Courtesy of Australian Nintendo site Vooks.

[ShadowMarth]

Awesome! I'm not extatic about the code-swapping, but still...

Those online dates... That mean that different games will have different services?

[chuddy_2001uk]

Sweet! I'm not too keen either and I really think that amount of digits are very unecessary. Good to see Nintendo are working hard on this because we all know what happened to the Online Capabilities of the GameCube -_-

[RYGR]

Yeh, they really are pushing it and want this to work. After all, it is officially the first time the giant Nintendo goes online.
The amount of digits is important... you dont want to have people on your list that you dont know... the more digits the better for security purposes, but never good for us users - so we just have to deal with it. With the dates;how i see it is that the first game will be MKDS, released in November for Americans and December for Australians. This game will be available to play online in November, as soon as it comes out (the first place it comes out is america so it goes wifi then). Animal Crossing, December..so yehh, different wifi dates per game. Its basically just as soon as a game is released, its online counterpart will be out too.

[chuddy_2001uk]

I'm also interested in how 3rd party game develpoers take this whole DS online compatibility on board for thier games. Also theres the cost :(

Free for 1st party Nintendo games but "not-so-free" for 3rd party games.

[RYGR]

yeh. do you have any 3rd party games in mind? Damn it your bringing back one word in my mind.
"RARE" - Bloody hell. Imagine if we still had rare. DONKEY KONG DS!!!!

[chuddy_2001uk]

=P Rechargd, oh Rechargd, Rare are still making games for Nintendo's hanheld stuff, like the DS :D No need to worry dear boy.

[RYGR]

lol i forgot about that actually. But still, damn that idea can go a long way. I miss the Rare logo lol...goog old SNES days...

[bignds]

MARIO KART DS OUT HERE FIRST? F*CK YEAH

[Euan]

"GET IN" as they say.

Well this, or won't this, work with the PSP? I need one that also works with the little devil of a machine...